We describe a novel simple and highly scalable semi-supervised method called Word-Class Distribution Learning (WCDL), and apply it the task of information extraction (IE) by utili...
Yanjun Qi, Ronan Collobert, Pavel Kuksa, Koray Kav...
In this paper two aspects of generating and using phonetic Arabic dictionaries are described. First, the use of single pronunciation acoustic models in the context of Arabic large...
Frank Diehl, Mark J. F. Gales, Marcus Tomalin, Phi...
This paper presents our work on rapid language adaptation of acoustic models based on multilingual cross-language bootstrapping and unsupervised training. We used Automatic Speech...
My thesis aims to contribute towards building autonomous agents that are able to understand their surrounding environment through the use of both audio and visual information. To ...
Motivated by the need for an informative, unbiased and quantitative perceptual method for the development and evaluation of a talking head we are developing, we propose a new test...
Darren Cosker, Susan Paddock, A. David Marshall, P...